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CVE-2026-125224

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Description

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/vorbis_parser.c that re-parses invalid extradata for every packet when valid_extradata remains false. Attackers can supply crafted Ogg or Matroska Vorbis streams with large invalid extradata and many packets to exhaust CPU during demuxing or probing.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.8 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-09 19:16:59.940000
Last modified
2026-11-09 22:18:45.223000
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  "published": "2026-11-09T19:16:59.940",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-09T22:18:45.223",
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    }
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      "url": "https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25694",
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